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From: jhorvath@granite.ma30.bull.com (John Horvath)
Subject: Re: Miniboard with 9-volt battery?
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 15:53:18 GMT
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dodsonsl@msuvx1.memst.edu writes:

>I just finished putting together a Miniboard and everything seems to be
>working fine. The documentation says that you can power it with more than
>6 volts, but the parts kit comes with a battery holder for 4 C-cells. My
>question is: why not just use a 9-volt battery, which would be MUCH easier
>for a small mobile robot to carry around? There must be some advantage
>(longer battery life?) to using the C-cells, right?

The miniboard can use any power source for your experiments, between
5.4 and 36 volts. But if its going mobile, that means motors, which
will eat up a 9volt faster than the C-cells. The kit used the C cell
holder as a good suggestion to get started.

john horvath
internet: j.horvath@ma30.bull.com
mail: Bull, MA30-824A, 300 Concord Rd, Billerica, MA 01821

